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Team has produced more than 20 embryos using method used in humans, though there are no plans for live joeys

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Scientists have produced kangaroo embryos through in vitro fertilisation for the first time, in a development they say could help conservation of endangered animals.

Australian researchers at the University of Queensland made the eastern grey kangaroo embryos using intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), a technique widely used in human IVF, in which a sperm is injected into a mature egg.

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The monitoring program by Australian Wildlife Conservancy aims to show conservation and cattle grazing can coexist if properly managed

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Frame by frame, the wildlife living on a Queensland cattle station are revealed. A long-eared bilby is caught mid-hop on a gibber plain, the name given to the densely packed rocks of the desert pavement. The eyes of an endangered kowari – a palm-sized carnivorous marsupial with a bottle-brush tail – glow an eerie white. A feral cat stalks past and a curious dingo eyeballs the trail camera, one of eight planted on a North Australian Pastoral Company (Napco) property in the channel country as part of a joint biodiversity project with Australian Wildlife Conservancy.

Napco, which manages a 6m hectare cattle estate across northern Australia, first invited AWC ecologists to undertake an ecological assessment on its western Queensland properties in 2020. The ecologists recorded 51 bird species, 10 reptile, seven mammal and six types of frog.

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Many U.S. forests are privately owned, particularly in the Eastern and North Central part of the country. This makes control of invasive plants and pests challenging because efforts must be coordinated across landowners. A new study explores how differences in ownership motivation affects willingness to control, and how economic incentives can be implemented most efficiently.

Photosynthesis — mainly carried out by plants — is based on a remarkably efficient energy conversion process. To generate chemical energy, sunlight must first be captured and transported further. This happens practically loss-free and extremely quickly. A new study shows that quantum mechanical effects play a key role in this process.

New, groundbreaking research shows how, at a local scale, agricultural research and development led to improved crop varieties that resulted in global benefits to the environment and food system sustainability.

New, groundbreaking research shows how, at a local scale, agricultural research and development led to improved crop varieties that resulted in global benefits to the environment and food system sustainability.

Order picking with a Smart Glass? To most fresh produce wholesalers it may still sound a bit futuristic, but as far as Hermen Mensink of Care4it is concerned, that will soon change. He was inspired by an example at a flower wholesaler and has now introduced it to fresh produce wholesalers. “The big advantage is that the order picker has both hands free and can thus move quick…

Mientras México responde hoy al fallo del panel de disputas comerciales de que sus restricciones al maíz transgénico violan el acuerdo comercial entre Estados Unidos, México y Canadá (T-MEC, por sus siglas en español), una declaración respaldada internacionalmente y firmada por 10,268 individuos y 698 organizaciones apoya a México en su defensa de la soberanía alimentaria, la salud pública, la integridad ambiental y los derechos indígenas.

The post Miles de personas condenan el intento de EE.UU. y Canadá de obligar a los mexicanos a comer tortillas transgénicas appeared first on Regeneration International.

Fruit Logistica will be held between Wednesday 5 and Friday 7 February in Berlin. FreshPlaza and Primeur have joined together to publish a 158-page tradeshow magazine. It is a truly international edition with in-depth articles from the international fresh produce sector. The German-language magazine in…

As global demand for fresh produce continues to rise, air freight plays a crucial role in transporting perishable goods from Africa to Europe. Fresh fruits and vegetables, alongside other perishable commodities such as seafood and flowers, are regularly shipped to meet consumer demand in European…